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⌈ Secret Post #2071 ⌋

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Being French, I never laughed so hard at a trigger warning. (I want a rage warning for bad French in fic though. I know that French is hard but a little Google-fu would not hurt.)

On the rest of the secret, never agreed harder.

Oh, seconded on the rage warning...for any second language.

Maybe it was a TW for french-kissing?

(I'm French as well! High five!)

Nope, it was definitely French as in the language. Also, I remember "couch cushions" was one of the triggers. As was "zombies," "fish/sea creatures," "hemocaste discrimination," and "reality bending."

To name just a few.

AYRT

Oh my goodness... and thanks for the clarification, OP!

nayrt

Oh, I remember that! I think parrots (or parakeets?) were also on the list for some reason? What the hell was up with all of that? I'm pretty sure that mod post was either frozen or deleted eventually and the mods kept insisting that no trigger should be belittled so they kept adding things to the list when people were dicking around and suggesting stupid shit be out on there

OP

Yeah I was trying to find the original list as well since I remember there were some truly WTF ones in there, but all I managed to find was the mod post fallout (http://hs-olympics.dreamwidth.org/9364.html) and a mini-list (http://pregnantzombie.tumblr.com/post/23531630289/on-the-subject-of-homestuck-shipping-olympics) that took about 20 of the triggers and listed where each of them exist in the comic.

if anyone can find an original list I'd be very grateful...I'm curious to see it :D

You might like this. If you haven't seen it

(artist is bastardfact on tumblr)

heh, self-culling

I liked concuspiscent shaming myself.

They were trying to cover the specific triggers of the individuals they knew to be participating in the fest, not "anything that can possibly trigger anyone" or even "likely triggers for large groups of people."

Individual triggers are random like that. People can develop triggers for the language their abuser spoke, or a poster on the wall that they saw during the traumatic incident, or a specific object or item of clothing that was involved. (Surely you can imagine how certain kinds of traumatic situation could involve couch cushions? I can think of two or three scenarios without even trying.)

There's still a point where it's stopped being practical for the overall picture and is just silly.

Ah, c'est la vie.

I can imagine situations where someone would be triggered by all transgender people, a trigger request someone made in the comments on HSO, and I'm still sure as fuck going to have a problem with an organization or event that upholds enforcing "transgender people" as a trigger warning.

Yes, and that's different from the couch cushions because it's DISCRIMINATORY AS FUCK.

I don't think that the HSO trigger warning policy was well done, and I can think of about three ways to do it better, but can you really not see the difference between a person asking for warnings for a harmless object and for a group of people who are heavily discriminated against in real life?

You know, if they just took away the 'trigger' part it wouldn't be so bad. I doubt those things activate anyone's PTSD.

hemocaste discrimination was actually a trigger for real people??

Don't have the original list saved, but people also requested the following (recovered via searching for people complaining about this):

Body Horror
Hands and Fingertips, especially close ups
Holes in skin
Arachnids
Insects
Fish/Sea animals
Hemocaste discrimination
Blood
Character death
Disembowelment
Zombies
Amputation
Derealization
Pregnancy
Mind control
Slavery
Stalking
Age Disparity
Incest
Underage
Profanity
Reality bending
Religion
Swearing
Tentacles

Transgender characters/topics were also requested in the comments, however the mods never responded to that one.

The original request for "French" was then initially broadened to non-English languages.

Maybe it's the new, fandom/SJW way of saying 'Pardon my French'?
And hello there countryman/woman/person!

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